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  Chapter 28: The Big Loser Who Bought a Symbian Phone

  TL: Etude

  On the first night of the school year, the campus was alive with students reveling in the y of their new enviro.

  Jiang Qin walked back to the male dormitory, p a question: What’s the most profitable veo start in a uy setting?

  I cafes, supermarkets, bubble tea shops.

  These seemed to be the top choices for studerepreneurs due to low initial iment, stable profits, and ease of ma.

  However, the downside was clear: limited growth potential and a low ceiling for development.

  As Jiang Qin strolled, he stopped in front of the campus supermarket, attracted by a poster on the door.

  “Uy Student Forum, the professional forum used by all uy students.”

  He walked over, peeled the entire poster off the wall, and exami thoughtfully.

  Ding, ding, ding—

  At that moment, his phone chimed. Pulling it out, he saixeted penguin i fshing in the signal bar.

  “Godfather, I need your advi how to get someone’s tact details.”

  “Already targeting someone just after entering school? Not bad. Just ask boldly, it’s not like you’ll be fined for beied.”

  “Is there a way to get tact details without asking?”

  Reading Guo Zihang’s message, Jiang Qin’s lips twitched. He thought, ‘This guy is hopeless, was his mouth financed on a loan? He’s so relut to use it.’

  But, sidering Guo Zihang’s earlier address of ‘godfather’, Jiang Qin decided to patiently inquire further.

  “Uppercssman or freshman? If it’s an uppercssman, don’t bother. They’ve seen it all and see through your little tricks. If it’s a freshman, you could pretend to borrow their phone and thely call yourself.”

  “What if it’s a fruit seller au the school gate?”

  “??????”

  “That auntie has a baby voice. When I heard her speak, my heart wouldn’t stop rag.”

  Jiang Qin was momentarily dumbfouhen had an epiphany.

  Guo Zihang had never shown i in any girl during high school, not even giving Chu Siqi a sed gnce. Jiang Qin had assumed he was a te bloomer, but now, in uy, this guy was finally letting loose.

  However, the allure of a young auh a baby voice did seem intriguing.

  Jiang Qin casually sent a dismissive message and headed back to his dorm.

  As he ehe dorm building, a flurry of footsteps thundered from above. Six or seven students rushed down from the sed floor, creating a chaotic se.

  Jiang Qin watched as he asded, reag the entrao find Cao Guangyu, Zhou Chao, and Ren Ziqiang also gathered, drawn by the otion.

  “What’s going on?”

  Zhou Chao spoke in a hushed tone, “udents from the Fn Trade Department are g with seniors. It started because a guy named Li Dazhuang was disrespectful, provoking the uppercssmen by calling them ugly.”

  Jiang Qin raised an eyebrow, “There’s actually someone named Li Dazhuang in the Fn Trade Department?”

  “Is he your friend?”

  “No, not important. How’s the situation now?”

  Ren Ziqiang’s eyes lit up with excitement, “Do you know why this guy is called Dazhuang? He’s literally as strong as his name suggests, his arms thicker than my thighs. Those seniors are in for a rough time. They strutted in fidently but left in a sorry state.” (Dazhuang = big muscur)

  “Still fighting in uy? So immature, no substance,” ented Cao Guangyu disdainfully, pulling out a full-s phone and tapping it.

  Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang were immediately captivated, “Holy shit! Cao, hone is that? The s is huge!”

  Cao Guangyu proudly showed off his Nokia 5230, a new model not yet avaible in a, boasting about it as though he had tried all the top brand phones. “Got it for over three thousand yuan through my dad’s tacts. It’s det, but the feel isn’t as good as my BckBerry, and it’s a bit slow to respond. Makes a good backup phohough.”

  “Over three thousand yuan? That’s almost as much as our tuition fees! we take a look?”

  Cao Guangyu hahe phoo Ren Ziqiang nontly but couldn’t help adding, “Be careful, don’t drop it.”

  Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao treated the phone like a treasure, almost breaking the phone in their excitement, causing Cao Guangyu visible distress. He quickly shifted his attention to Jiang Qin, who seemed ued in the new phone and was more focused on the ongoing situation at the Fn Trade Department.

  Feeling a bit unfortable with Jiang Qin’s ck of i, Cao Guangyu tried to engage him. “Hey Jiang, don’t you want to check it out? It only has eight physical buttons and runs on Symbian. Heard of it? It’s a smartphone. I remember you have a Nokia too, the 7610 from 20ht? That old thing’s nothing pared to the 5230.”

  Jiang Qin g him and dismissed the idea, “Not ied. I’ve used oh just three physical buttons, and that’s what I call a smartphone.”

  “Only three buttons? Yeah, right!”

  Ign him, Jiang Qiered the dorm and took out the poster he had ripped off earlier, spreading it oable. He then pulled out a Lenovo workstation – the ThinkPad W500, from his luggage. It was a 2008 model, dual-core CPU, 4GB RAM, priced at 12,600 yuan. He had bought it with the pensation money from his property demolition, knowing that i access would be essential for starting his business.

  Ren Ziqiang and Zhou ediately lost i in Cao Guangyu’s phone and crowded around Jiang Qin.

  “A ptop?”

  “Jiang, it run CrossFire?”

  Jiang Qin plugged in a mouse and pressed the power button, “CrossFire? I don’t know, ried.”

  Zhou Chao enviously rubbed his hands, “A ptop not used faming is a waste.”

  “It’s a workstation, not a gaming ptop. It probably ’t handle games.”

  Ren Ziqiang couldn’t resist joining in, “What about movies? Have you seen ‘The Legend of Sword and Fairy’ with Hu Ge? I missed the finale!”

  Jiang Qin ied a mobile card into a work card device, “Heard of the mobile data package? 5 yuan for 30MB. Guess how much data a TV episode uses?”

  “I really haven’t looked into that.”

  “At least 500MB, I’d guess. Watg an episode would cost over 100 yuan in data.”

  Jiang Qin was also frustrated by this.

  Although not many students had ptops in 2008, most dorms had at least one or two. However, to prevent freshmen from being distracted, all first-year students, except those in the puter Sce department, were not allowed i access in their dorms.

  Now he could only access the i using a mobile card, and he had to install an app to monitor his data usage, giving him a strong sense of nostalgia.

  “If you ’t game or watch movies, what’s it for?”

  Cao Guangyu, feeling a bit sour, decided to call his dad a a high-spec desktop puter, determined not to be outdone by Jiang Qin.

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